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Your 3% rate likely helps you with cheap debt and without the need to chase high that normal rental rates.

A lot more people willing to travel to wisp than Snowshoe from the D.C. area and there is a summer season of activities around the lake as well.

Some of the best BRRRR deals I have seen play out this way:You buy a home cheap enough that when you do a renovation and pull out 75-80% LTV, your rent covers your mortgage and you have returned most of your investmentThis is for A-B class areas. 

Defense was just something like I just wanted to buy a part of San Francisco for cheap, I wasn't planning to do anything sinister.   

The lot I am looking at is near a Dam and the power in my area is super cheap.  

We have a tons of lots around here like the one you described, many of which can be bought for cheap and are not listed because there are just barely any buyers for such.

It amazes me how much random transient travel it gets(bowling tournaments, pawn shop remodels, manufacturing employees, traveling photographers, etc). 

They buy up lots in nowhere that you can do nothing with and then act like they've been liquidated by the government so they can sell them off supposedly cheap.

I do occasionally post about it on some of the social media sites for travel nurses, such as Travel Nurse Gypsy Housing for example.